Informal Dog Walking Club: Informal meeting place for dog walkers who would like to walk in the company of others. Entrance of Bugsworth canal basin (opposite the Navigation Inn carpark in Buxworth). 10am. Phone Caroline on 07800 819901 for more details.

Exercise to Music Class: Come and enjoy some fun and fitness to the sounds of the 60’s. All abilities welcome. Chinley Community Centre. 1.30 – 2.30pm. £4.50 per session. For more information contact Bridget on 01663 751166.

Wednesdays

Breastfeeding Group: Tea on the Green, Chinley. 10 – 11am. Just turn up to chat with other parents and local health visitors. All welcome regardless of feeding methods. Contact Breastmates on 07768 540951 for more details.

Walking for Health: Very easy 10 minute walk starting from Chinley Community Centre at 11.30am. Phone Richard Leyshon on 07545 420593 or email richard.leyshon@highpeak.gov.uk for more information.

Line Dancing: Chinley Community Centre. 1.30 – 3.30pm. £2.50 per session plus 50p for tea and biscuits. Phone Marjorie Jackson on 01298 22836 for more information.

We invite everyone who is affected by dementia to join us for Musical Memories: a musical gathering and community singing group where we will all have a sing, drink tea and eat cake! 2-4pm, every other Wednesday. For further information, contact vic_kayee@hotmail.co.uk

Friends of Chinley Park Working Parties: Stubbins Lane Park. 2nd Saturday of each month. 10am – 1pm. Just turn up – we are always looking for volunteers. Email focp@chinleyca.org.uk for more details.

Table Tennis: Chinley Community Centre. 1.30pm – 3.30pm. £1.50. Just turn up. Check the Community website calendar to ensure it is running. Email graham_cooper@hotmail.co.uk or phone Graham on 07702 933585 for more details.

New Building

We are disappointed to say that the bid to Big Lottery Fund for the new community centre has been turned down.

However, after the work on the Community Vision, your involvement in telling us what was needed and your overwhelming support for the plan, we will not be deterred.

We know that the lottery fund, in its final months, was hugely oversubscribed and highly competitive. The fund closed in January, and although a new capital fund will open at some point, they can’t yet say when.

In the meantime, we will take stock, and prepare a revised scheme, to submit when a new capital fund opens.

We have been advised that the new fund will not offer the same level of investment. As such, we will be considering cheaper, one storey options, without the changing rooms built underneath, into the slope. This proposal had huge support from the community, as it made best use of the restricted site footprint, but we will have to reconsider this.

We will regroup and refine the plan, involving you along the way in the consultation, as we develop Plan B. We always knew that it would be challenging to bring lottery funding on this scale, to a community such as ours, but we will keep trying.

All funds raised for the new building to date remain ring fenced for the new building fund. No locally raised funds have been spent on the process to date, so we will continue to work hard at raising the match funding that will be needed for the revised scheme.

Thank you for your ongoing support.

Poppy Appeal Organiser

Angela Phillips is stepping down as the ‘Poppy Appeal Organiser’ in Chinley due to other volunteer commitments. She has organised a strong appeal in Chinley and last year raised £3,620.33 for the Legion – a fantastic amount! If you would be interested in taking on the role, please see the advertisement.

Chinley Station turns 150

Chinley station — after which the village is named — was opened on 2 February 1867. Read more about it here.

Chinley Station in full flow.

We are collecting used Sweet Biscuit Wrappers and Home Care Products to raise money for the new centre. See the flyer for more info.

Bookings

There are 5 community buildings in the Parish, in which activities and events take place.